Navigating the Goo: a spend-out for regeneration webinar
March 18, 2024 | 10 am to 12 pm PT/ 11 am to 1 pm MT/ 12 to 2 pm CT/ 1 to 3 pm ET
In nature, a caterpillar completely dissolves into a gooey, magical state before emerging as a butterfly. At Justice Funders and Solidaire Network, we believe the same kind of transformation happens when private foundations spend-out. In other words, we believe a shift from wealth accumulation to wealth redistribution gets us closer to a just and regenerative economy.
Join us and co-host Solidaire Network for Navigating the Goo: a spend-out for regeneration webinar. We will have a powerful, transformational conversation about what it means to spend-out, reimagine philanthropy, and move money and resources in service of justice.
Hear foundation leaders share their firsthand spend-out stories, and what life is like beyond the goo! Explore the challenges and opportunities that come up along the way. Learn how your own spend-out strategies can support our movements for a more just economy.
Featured Speakers:
- Shantell Bingham – Co-Director, Liberating Investment in the Food and Farm Ecosystem
- Farhad Ebrahimi – founder and former President, Chorus Foundation (now Philanthropic Transformation Strategist, Solidaire Network
- Kat Gilje – Former Executive Director, Ceres Trust
- Sonja Swift – Trustee, Swift Foundation
This interactive, two-hour session will be facilitated by Justice Funders Co-Executive Director Dana Kawaoka-Chen. Whether you’re part of a foundation, a movement, or just curious about the future of philanthropy, we invite you to be part of the conversation.
Please register by March 14. We will be sharing a recording with attendees via link following the event.
Spring 2025 Stargazing Party: a virtual gathering
March 19, 2024 | 2:30 to 2 pm PT/ 1:30 to 3 pm MT/ 2:30 to 4 pm CT/ 3:30 to 5 pm ET
We invite our members, prospective members, and co-conspirators to join us for our Spring 2025 Stargazing Party – a participatory space for untethered imagination, embodied learning, and community connection.
We will root ourselves in the energy of the transition from winter to spring – the gradual emerging from solitude into community, the stirring of new beginnings, the feeling of coming alive, the shifting of seed dreaming into intention setting.
This Stargazing Party will focus on practices and rituals of self-care that are appropriate for the spring season, and on the ways in which, as we emerge from the cold and darkness of winter, we can reach out to one another and create intentional communities of care to sustain us in the year ahead.
If you have questions or would like to talk to us about what membership is and if it is right for you, please email membership [at] justicefunders [dot] org.
ABOUT STARGAZING PARTIES:
In order to develop a beloved community rooted in relationships of trust, shared learning and analysis, commitment to one another, and capacity to engage in collective action together, we offer engagement spaces including our Quarterly Stargazing Parties. These gatherings take place near the solstices and equinoxes and are spaces for embodied learning, healing, community building, and action.